I did some amateur poetry in the past so I've put it here.
Favorite artwork: Nighthawks - Edward Hopper
I made a pastiche of Hopper's Nighthawks in my personal art gallery.
Must-read poems:
"Facing it" - Yusef Komunyakaa
"River of Milk" - Kaveh Akbar
Essays and books I strongly recommend:
"Return to Tipasa" - Albert Camus
"In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was within me an invincible summer."
"A Hunger Artist" - Franz Kafka
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein
"7. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
Want to Read:
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
"The Judgement" - Franz Kafka
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sense and Reference - Gottlob Frege
Also: Mina Loy, James Wright, Dylan Thomas, Walt Whitman